Means for making, collating, and auditing records pertaining to car movements.



A. J. CAMP. MEANS FOR MAKING, GGLLATING, AND A UDITINIQREGORDS PERTAINING TO GAB MOVEMENTS. APPLIOATIOH FILED APR. 20. 1909.

9811,2455 Patented Jan. 16,1911.

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AUGUSTUS J. CAMP, OF BIRIJIINGHAM, ALABAMA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed April 20, 1909. Serial No. 491,204.

counting there or; and the invention has for its object to dispense with the heretofore usual record books in which entries in respect of the dealings with such cars and accounting therefor have been kept, and to reduce or minimize the number of transcriptions heretofore necessary in keeping account of such cars, and to provide means whereby the entire record of the dealing with the car by the railroad company over whose tracks it is moved will be kept in duplicate in or upon a file record appropriated to said car, and b which at the settlement period a report s owing the time when the car was received by the carryin railroad and when it was delivered by sai carrying railroad to a connecting line or to destlnation, may be detached from said file record and sent to the car owning railroad company, the car carrying railroad retannng in its possession a duplicate of and made from the same trmscription as the report sent to the car owning company.

The invention and. one suitable manner of utilizing the instrumentalities or means claimed are set forth in the following description and illustrated in the accompany ing drawings.

That which is claimed as new is set forth in the claims appended to the description.

In the accompanying drawings-Figurel is a view showing a blank used by a junc tion agent in making his daily report of cars received, at the station. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the report made by a junction agent of the cars delivered at his station. Flg. 3 is a view showing a car-record file within which the records pertaining to the movements of a car are retained, the leaf being shown as raised. Fig. i is a similar view showing the leaf folded. Figs. 5, 6 and 7 are views of the transcribing blank, said views illustrating the blank in its several ing railroad. The car-record fi folded positions. Fig. 8 is an end elevaa tion of the blank shown in Figs. 5-7. Fig. 9 is a view showing the conductors reportof the cars handled by Fig. 10 is a detail of the car record file having the car delivery record attached to the car receiving record.

Referring to Figs. 3 and 4 of said drawings, the reference letter B designates a carrecord file which consists of a body B. provided on its front or face with a receptacle comprising. pockets 5 separated from each other and adapted to receive the end portions of car record slips which are exposed to view in the space separating said pockets. The face of the body B is also provided with a surface or space 5* designed to receive an entry of the initial transaction with the car by the car carr ing railroad, that is to say, the receipt of t e car by said carrye isprovided with a detachable leaf 6 which, when in position for use as shown in Fig. 4, overlies the record receiving space 12*. This leaf is designed and constructed to be detached.

As shown in Fig. 3 the leaf 6 is integral with the material of the upper pocket 6 and a weakened line b is provided for facility of detachmentfof the leaf. This leaf is provided with spaces for receiving data concerning the car, including as shown, the initials of the car-owner I)", the number of the car Z), and a date b and is provided with suitable indicia indicating that the record contained thereon relates to the receipt of the car by the car carrying railroad, and as indicated at If this indicia consists of the word Received. As before stated, when the leaf Z) is in position for use, as illustrated in Fig. l, by the interposition of a carbon surface, which preferably and as shown in Fig. 3, is carried by the leaf itself, the record transcribed on said leaf is transferred in carbon upon the record receiving surface 71*, so that the record of the receipt of the car is in duplicate, once upon the leaf 7) and once upon the surface 7) of the carrecord, file B.

Referring now to Figs. 5, 6 and 7 of the drawings, the reference letter E designates generallya foldable sheet comprising a plurality of sections 6, three such sections be ing shown in the drawing. The several sectionsof'the sheet E are detachable, preferably by means of weakened lines e and him on a trip.

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eral rlvi' prising a when tin numeral 31') eniry is peel :liSO be i such (letaclizil am that enl'ries r9 1n :ippmwmmnucl mere-n, he Jilly divnluri along f 'eriil of m" e uations, as indium clear Hllfllfll siu'mli lli Pit H "her T"01'(l slips r l. tugetfli r iCQiVBLl in the the car record file, 21ml i i (if and (:01)-

' b (if the car llQLl in ii k f lens-ion of H19 iii; 1 l RM :11 shown 12). Fig, vi? the draw r, and inn/in ill: be

conmcied rim 9' The sevlips c0m are arranged tiizi :aliowu. in F' mtvr, 2111171 by the as, which pref ml by the requirl, by the Fig. 8, the y and in .l G ul ani are im and, when 510 (lispiisml Sillil file will cons tam duplicate records of H10 deiivery Oil the car, one iiltlziclml l0 ii): l aai: Z) and the other File, v

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ale of (.lsrlii ring "p5 including Y the cm recfird i slips are ilauiclmbly .:li0r.'n in iii: drawing, m sail: to the mu owner :15 10mm: mat the car has passed, nut

pass? i621 0133 "(im ir and. indicating pocket 01" the file.

1e (lair let Cheri 10m each riiciiizir car carti lilic disp asiiimn Derierl arrives gather rill to am A ,i i m Mimi amer of and t 7 time 0:? receipt and delivery .1 iii: 01. clays during which the essien oil the car c-(irrying s @f accauniting. The czir 5 retained. by he car carrying; :10 l contains 011 the surface 5" a wing packet Z2 an exact cluplicaim oi "1 M. emen slip forwariicd lo the can gning (lescriptimi it Will 0i filings with cars i ecl on without the i'lecassiiy or eniry in bucks and Wlili a minimum number lransc'" whims iiability of mistake, and. consumpiiion. 0iiii'ne in the keeping of the raw (1 Ilnleri'necliaie the remipt and delivery of. lire car by til;- cur carrying company, in the ordinary conduct of such l)' 1Si110St5,lhE1'@ are cmiductm's Wheel repolms which cleal. with thee nio'vingnf the car while in the control of the car carrying coii'i'ggninyand the disp0- sition stl' which air at pariicula r1 y concerned in my iliveiiiimi, lint such coiuluctcrs" Wheel reporu or iraiiscriplioiw thereof may be rcin the pocket receptacle of the car i. B, so that said file will contain mi 2113; 2.1 conipieie remit-(l in duplicate of receipl and delivery of ihe car, for retention by Lila can cnn'yii'ig company and iransmis- Si n in (he can OWDH', but also the inter-- iimdiate recbrilm m? the innvements of the car whilc in Hm PUSSQSSlOll of the car carrying cmiipiuiy.

Mills/ugh my inve'ision is not iimi'md 10L ilierrsl'u, .l. have shown in the drawings and will now describe suitable instrumenialiiies and n manner of making reports by the ire-- ceiving and. delivery agents and conductors of the Car car ying road, which are 195 the recs-rd is kept according to ancl b the use of Um instrumenlalities of my inventien which description a, complete illustration 3f :1 suitable method of the keePing of accsiiiit 5319 car from iii-S recmpt and de livery and as to its intermediate movements is set fllll, Assuming 6:11:22 a car of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, No. 581,623 is received by the agent 01 the Louisville A; i. -wiiie Railroail Company, ill; a sifiinrgi ilesignalaii as 0 This agent mzii 1L report the fact to the cm sreccirrling ofiice, his i epor q specifying the; owner or? the car by the initials of the 0W1iiiig cmiipainv, lilie .muribei' of ihe cm, from wiioiii ii *1: ed, when; it was received, lilii 6h 6 0i receipt, and 051161 information, such as its destinatimn and contents. A suitsievz, A for such purpose isiiw 2 able r apnr l i dimmed in i JOIH} isizng on the one sheet it i senses tered, the spaces being preferably ruledaas shown at c, and the several blocks orspa 5'. being defined'by vertical and horizontal lines (6- along which lines the sheet IiiIy- 'b6 severed to separatethe sevcral record blocks, which then constitute record slips. When such report comes from the receiving agent, either in the form indicated or other suitable form, a car record fileis appropriated to the cars enumerated on the slips of which it is (.lcsired to keep i'ecordsaccording to my invention, and the data of receipt of said car is transcribed onto the leaf Z of the carrccord tile, and reproduced in carbon upon the surface Z) of said file. It the receiving agents report is in the block form above referrcd to, the sheet may be divided into the several blocks for facility of distribution to the employees of the car record othoe, and if desired the receiving agents record slip a,

after transcription on the ,leai of the carrecord file as above described, may be dis.

posed in the receiving pocket of said file. The conductor of the train carrying the car also forwards his report to the car record oiiice, and a suitable torm for such report is shown in Fig. 9 and designated by the letter C. This form may embody on one sheet a number of groups or blocks of data C appropriated to individual cars and each containing spaces for the designation ortlie car owner and the number of the car, the'station from which it was moved by the'particular conductor, and the station where it was received by him, together withthe mileage between such stations and other desired information such asthedate and the ulti-' mate destination of the car. This report sheet can also, as shown, contain a section 0 upon which general'iiiformation, not concerned in the car accounting to which my, invention relates, may be written. When arranged in the block form indicated, the conductors report may be severed into the several blocks or slips at. the car receiving office, distributed, and the slips disposed in the pockets of the car record files appro riated to cars designated thereby, so that or the convenience of the car carrying railroad its conductors report or reports, it the car be handled by more than one conductor, may be contained in the file record.

When the car delivered the delivery agent sends in his repor a suitable form of which -D isshown in Fig. of the drawing, which preferably accords inall respects with the car receiving agents report exceptthat the report indicates the delivery rather than the reception of the car. It contains suitable spaces and designations for the initials of the owner of the car, the car i'niinher, the date of delivery, and such other information as may be desirable for to whom the car was delivered, Where it was delivered, its ultimate destination, and con tents. When this report is received at the car record oilice, it it is in the form illus-- "t'rated, the sheet is divided into the several blocks or slips relatingto the individual cars for facility of distribution to the proper employees of the our record otlice. The data contained on this report is then transcribed onto the appropriate block or.

space of the 'toldable sheet E illustrated in Figs. 57 of the drawings, being replicduced thereon in multiple. The several dilplicate sections of thisrecord are then separated, one thereof is attached to'the free end cf the leaf 3) of the car record file, one

of said parts, that is to say either the til c or the leaf 5 being provi ed with an ad hesive for this purpose. As shown in the as a notice of the delivery of the car by the car carrying company. a

My invention provides novel means by whi en/car records may be conveniently kept inasimple way without entries in books riiinirnizin the probability or possibility of error, an greatly reducing the time involved'in the keeping of the account. The files-appropriated to individual cars contain the essential records of the car, namely, the fact and time of receipt and delivery thereof in duplicate, in a suitable form so that one duplicate record nay be detached and sent to the car owner as a settlement account and the other retained by the car carrying comp y w Having thus described my [invention what- I claim is,- 5'; 1

1. A car-record fileconsistingmf a body having a detachable leaf overlying one surface thereof, one face ofvsaid leaf having indicia constituting an index to the file contents, means for duplicating the index indicia on a face of the body, the free end of said leaf being provided with means for rece tacle to receive a record sli said ockets being separated from each other to pro vide space in which the record slip is exposed to view.

3. In a car record system, a sheet embody- 

